KRISTEN CAROLL SNOW v. THE STATE OF NEVADA (2025)

ORDER DISMISSING APPEAL

Kristen Caroll Snow appeals from a second amended order admitting defendant to probation and fixing the terms of probation. Second Judicial District Court, Washoe County; Lynne K. Jones, Chief Judge.

Snow argues the district court lacked authority to impose a three-day jail term as a condition of probation without first finding that she violated the conditions of her probation. Snow concedes that her claim is moot because she has already served the jail term and has been dishonorably discharged from probation. Snow contends this court should address the issue on the merits because the duration of the challenged matter is short, there is a likelihood the issue will arise in the future, and the matter is important. See Valdez-Jimenez v. Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct., 136 Nev. 155, 158, 460 P.3d 976, 982 (2020) (noting that the appellate court will generally decline to hear a moot case but discussing the three factors of the mootness exception).

We conclude Snow has not demonstrated this issue falls within the exception to the mootness doctrine because she has not shown that this issue is likely to arise in the future. Cf. id. at 160, 460 P.3d at 983 (concluding that petitioners satisfied the second factor of the mootness exception by providing documents from other criminal cases in which defendants had raised similar arguments). Accordingly, we

ORDER this appeal DISMISSED.

Bulla, C.J.

Gibbons, J.

Westbrook, J.